{"article":{"id":109444,"heading":"Iraqis reject occupation flag","author":"Betsy Ross","created":"2004-05-04 20:57:30","modified":"2005-08-15 02:55:53","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:55:53","article":"<p>Iraqi university students carry the Iraqi national flag at their campus in the northern city of Mosul, Monday May 3, 2004, while demonstrating against the U.S. occupation forces attempting to replace the national colors and flag. All across Iraq, the U.S. occupation imposed flag has been burned, scorned, and ignored. It flys only in the so-called \"green zone\" where the occupation government has it's headquarters. <br><br> Reuters photo\/Namir Noor-Eldeen <\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"Iraq's colors are red, green, white and black... NOT blue, white, and yellow!","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2004\/05\/flag.jpgt18ldq.jpg","filesize":"27.5 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2004\/05\/109444.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2004\/05\/flag.jpgt18ldq.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2004\/05\/flag.jpgt18ldq.jpgthumb.jpg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":109476,"heading":"There was a misunderstanding about which country the flag was for","article":"of course, who would have believed they would accept the new one?there s no green on it, not much left from the old flag and  it would not even have fitted for united Cyprus (if it ever unites). \r\n\r\nIt s surpising that t they didn t add Mc donalds symbols, a few stripes,and why not  the star of David. \r\nThey could just change the name of the country if they don t care (and know ) about  the history and culture of these people.\r\n\r\nwas nt it drawned by some iraqi that has not seen his country for at least a decade?\r\n\r\n","author":"Sergio Leone","parent_id":109444,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2004-05-05 08:01:17","modified":"2005-08-15 02:55:53","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/05\/4_22_iraq_flag_new.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/05\/4_22_iraq_flag_new.jpg"}}]}